Overview
When six villages in the department of Artibonite in the North of Haiti reported an epidemic of diarrhea and vomiting in late October 2010, Haitian authorities and the humanitarian community feared the worst. Test results confirmed that cholera had broken out in the Caribbean nation still struggling to recover from the devastating earthquake a mere ten months earlier. This second emergency within one year stretched the capacities of all humanitarian action on the ground. Above all, it put yet another additional burden on the Haitian population as they struggle to stay safe and healthy in particularly harsh circumstances.